Halpern-Manners Andrew, Robert Warren John, Torche Florencia
Indiana University.
University of Minnesota.
Sociol Methods Res. 2017 Jan;46(1):103-124. doi: 10.1177/0049124114532445. Epub 2014 May 20.
Does participation in one wave of a survey have an effect on respondents' answers to questions in subsequent waves? In this article, we investigate the presence and magnitude of "panel conditioning" effects in one of the most frequently used data sets in the social sciences: the General Social Survey (GSS). Using longitudinal records from the 2006, 2008, and 2010 surveys, we find evidence that at least some GSS items suffer from this form of bias. To rule out the possibility of contamination due to selective attrition and/or unobserved heterogeneity, we strategically exploit a series of between-person comparisons across time-in-survey groups. This methodology, which can be implemented whenever researchers have access to at least three waves of rotating panel data, is described in some detail so as to facilitate future applications in data sets with similar design elements.
参与某一轮调查是否会对受访者在后续轮次中对问题的回答产生影响？在本文中，我们研究了社会科学中最常用的数据集之一——综合社会调查（GSS）中“面板条件作用”效应的存在及其程度。利用2006年、2008年和2010年调查的纵向记录，我们发现有证据表明至少一些GSS项目存在这种偏差形式。为了排除因选择性损耗和/或未观察到的异质性导致污染的可能性，我们策略性地利用了跨调查时间组的一系列个体间比较。这种方法只要研究人员能够获取至少三轮轮换面板数据就可以实施，我们将详细描述该方法，以便于未来在具有类似设计元素的数据集中应用。
